Symptoms of Earaches That Need A Visit To Urgent Care

There are various causes result in earaches, but the most common factors include sinus disease, common cold, inflamed tonsils, pharynx infection, impacted teeth and inflamed nasal. Also when the inner ear becomes damaged by insertion of a foreign object can cause earaches.

If you have severe cold or respiratory infection, Eustachian tubes become blocked with mucus from the virus. Dont ignore any of the symptoms. Visit your nearest urgent care center or primary care provider.

Most common symptoms associated with earaches include:

Hearing difficulty

Difficulty sleeping

Draining of the ears

Ear Drainage

Ringing in the ears

Fever

Vertigo

Pulling on the ears

Limited desire to eat

Irritability

Temporary mild hearing loss caused by effluvia

You should consult your urgent care provider if you:

Have had previous ear infection

Have frequent colds or other infections

Have allergies with nasal congestion

Have a family history of ear infections

Have nasal speech

Ear aches in children can cause a visit to urgent care provider, if they:

Along with the above symptoms, if your child has any of the below mentioned symptoms, consult urgent care provider:

If the child attend day care

Take a bottle to bed

If the child lives around the people who smoke

If the child born prematurely

If the child born with low birth weight

If child uses a pacifier

If the child is a boy because boys tend to get more ear infections than girls

Care for earaches:

The doctor uses an otoscope (OH-toe-skope) to see the inner ears for infection. A tympanogram (tim-PAN-uh-gram) is another test that may be done. It involves inserting an ear plug to see how the eardrum moves. The doctor will prescribe an antibiotic. Use the entire prescription, even if the child feels better after the first few days. You’ll need to bring the child back to the doctor after finishing the medicine, usually in 2 to 3 weeks. The ears will be checked to see if the infection is gone. Sometimes more medicine is needed.